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Endless Stories: Perspectivism and Narrative Form in Native Amazonian Literature 无尽的故事:亚马逊土著文学中的透视主义与叙事形式

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941831.003.0007

Lúcia Sá

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Intimate Frontiers: A Literary Geography of the Amazon 亲密的边疆:亚马逊的文学地理学

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-06-01 DOI: 10.3828/liverpool/9781786941831.003.0001

J. Uriarte, Felipe Martínez-Pinzón

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Filming Modernity in the Tropics: The Amazon, Walt Disney, and the Antecedents of Modernization Theory 在热带地区拍摄现代性:亚马逊，沃尔特迪斯尼和现代化理论的前身

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-05-24 DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781786941831.003.0010

B. Weinstein

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The Politics of Vegetating in Arturo Burga Freitas’s Mal de gente Arturo Burga Freitas的《Mal de gente》中的植被政治

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-05-24 DOI: 10.3828/LIVERPOOL/9781786941831.003.0009

L. Wylie

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Filming Modernity in the Tropics: 在热带地区拍摄现代性:

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-05-24 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvhhhg12.15

B. Weinstein

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The ‘Western Baptism’ of Yurupary: 玉露党的“西方洗礼”

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-05-24 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvhhhg12.16

R. Bolte

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Hildebrando Fuentes’s Peruvian Amazon: Hildebrando Fuentes的秘鲁亚马逊:

Intimate Frontiers Pub Date : 2019-05-24 DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvhhhg12.8

Cristóbal Cardemil-Krause